Night Quotes

Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry.

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie?

I had auditioned for 'Saturday Night Live' two or three times before and never really saw myself there. I looked up to Belushi and Bill Murray and Aykroyd and I never saw myself as in their world.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.

I can't do the same thing every night, the same gestures... it's like putting on dirty panties every day.

I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture.

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy.

One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.

And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment.

We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep.

I write every night.

Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.